PALIO di SIENA – Horse Race

Casali di Bibbiano villa guests can experience the famous ‘Palio di Siena’ horse race first-hand.

Ah, summer in Tuscany! Villa guests at Casali di Bibbiano are enjoying beautiful summer days ‘under the Tuscan the sun’. The sky is bright blue, the vineyard is thriving and Siena is getting ready for the famous Palio di Siena horse race.

Held twice a year on July 2 and August 16 in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, ‘Il Palio’ is a much anticipated and revered spectacle which attracts visitors from around the entire world. This dangerous horse race, which lasts usually no longer than 90 seconds, features ten colorful horses and riders representing ten of the seventeen city wards of Siena.

Siena’s voluminous Piazza del Campo is laid with thick a layer of dirt upon which the horses and bareback riders circle the piazza three times. Often enough, riders are thrown from their horses while trying to navigate the piazza’s treacherous turns and the winning horse need not have its rider upon it!

Located only 30 minutes from Siena, Casali di Bibbiano is proud to offer its guests the opportunity to experience, first-hand, ‘Il Palio’ and the magnificent ‘Corteo Storico’ pageant which precedes the race